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David Halpern, left, owner of Emanon Systems Inc., shakes hands with Matthew Clark, general manager of Nature’s Gifts, in front of their future recreational marijuana retail store in Sequim on Monday evening.
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A crew from the Coast Guard cutter Sea Fox removes four children from the 32-foot trawler Kloshie Bay, which caught fire Monday near Port Townsend.
6 rescued when boat catches fire off PT North Beach. The cause of the fire is unknown. No investigation is under way, said Bill Beezley, East Jefferson Fire-Rescue spokesman and Petty Officer Jonathan Klingenberg of the Coast Guard. “It’s an accident,” Beezley PENINSULA DAILY NEWS said, noting it was on a private PORT TOWNSEND — A boat vessel and that no one was hurt. that caught fire Monday remained docked in the Port Inspection planned Townsend Boat Haven on TuesKlingenberg said that the day. Six people were rescued Coast Guard will inspect the vesunharmed from the 32-foot sel — which has no visible extertrawler Kloshie Bay after the nal damage — when it has been boat caught fire in the water off repaired to ensure it is seaworthy.
Injuries avoided in incident being called accident
At 4:33 p.m., East Jefferson Fire-Rescue received a call from the captain of the Kloshie Bay, saying that the boat was on fire and it was attempting to make land, according to Beezley. During the distress call, the captain — identified in Port of Port Townsend records as Dean Rollings of Port Townsend — said two adults and four children were aboard the vessel. None but the captain have been identified. The captain could not be reached for comment on Tuesday. TURN
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Marijuana moratorium is called off Sequim’s City Council puts new rules into play BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
SEQUIM — The city of Sequim has lifted its 18-month ban on legal marijuana retail businesses, a move that a jubilant entrepreneur said would mean his shop could open within three months. In a 5-1 vote Monday, the council decided to implement permanent zoning rules with amendments addressing changes in state law relating to medical marijuana. The City Council had adopted a moratorium Feb. 24, 2014, that prevented retail stores from opening, and had approved six-month extensions Aug. 11, 2014, and again Feb. 9 this year.
The ban would have expired on Aug. 9. All council members present except Erik Erichsen — Laura DuBois was absent — voted in favor of lifting the ban. Erichsen made no comment about his reason for voting against the measure. “I think we should honor the commitment we made when we started down the road of a moratorium,” Councilman Ken Hays said. “All the conditions have been met,” he said. “I think it is only fair to allow what the majority of voters have approved in the state and in the city of Sequim.” TURN
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Judges deny suit Water temps killing salmon River after goat attack Columbia fish succumb PENINSULA DAILY NEWS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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SEATTLE — A federal appeals court panel has rejected Port Angeles resident Susan Chadd’s lawsuit over her husband’s fatal goring by a mountain goat that had been threatening visitors for years in Olympic National Park. However, in their ruling, two of the three 9th Circuit Court of Appeals judges suggested that Chadd should be allowed to pursue her claims. “Because it’s not over yet, I’m not going to comment on a pending appeal,” one of Chadd’s lawyers, personal injury lawyer Stephen Bulzomi of Tacoma, told Peninsula Daily News on Tuesday. “When the final decision in the case is made, I’ll have comment.”
C h a d d sued the federal government after her husband, 6 3 - y e a r- o l d Robert Boardman, was gored in the leg Oct. 16, 2010, by the Chadd 370-pound animal nicknamed by park personnel as “Klahhane Billy.” Boardman, a diabetes nurse and local musician, had tried to fend off the mountain goat with a walking stick while hiking with Chadd and friend Pat Willits on Switchback Trail on Klahhane Ridge in the park south of Port Angeles. TURN
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to warming trend BY KEN RIDLER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORTLAND, Ore. — More than a quarter-million sockeye salmon returning from the ocean to spawn are either dead or dying in the Columbia River and its tributaries due to warming water temperatures. Federal and state fisheries biologists say the warm water is lethal for the cold-water species and is wiping out at least half of this year’s return of 500,000 fish. “We had a really big migration of sockeye,” said Ritchie Graves of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “The thing that really hurts is we’re going to lose a majority of
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Commercial fisherman Les Clark pulls a sockeye salmon from his net while fishing on the Columbia River near Skamania in 2008. those fish.” He said up to 80 percent of the population could ultimately perish. Elsewhere in the region, state fisheries biologists in Oregon say more than 100 spring chinook
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INSIDE TODAY’S PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Happy 50th Birthday Tami!
99th year, 169th issue — 2 sections, 22 pages
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Love, Mom & Dad & Wilder Family
died earlier this month in the Middle Fork of the John Day River when water temperatures hit the mid-70s.
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